Director Martin Scorsese's "The Wolf of Wall Street" tells the tale of the rise and fall of Jordan Belfort, who got rich and then got jail time by playing fast and loose with the stock market.

Jared Dillian, a former Wall Street trader, rates 12 banking and trading scenes in movies and TV, such as "The Wolf of Wall Street," for realism. Dillian examines the depiction of real-life economic ...

Hollywood has long had a fascination with finance and Wall Street. Given how the corporate world exerts a potent hold on American life, this is quite an understandable impulse. The 2008 financial ...